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RFC 1123 - 4.1.4.1 Pathname Specification

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### 4.1.4.1 Pathname Specification

Since FTP is intended for use in a heterogeneous environment, User-FTP implementations MUST support remote pathnames as arbitrary character strings, so that their form and content are not limited by the conventions of the local operating system.

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  In particular, remote pathnames can be of arbitrary length, and all the printing ASCII characters as well as space (0x20) must be allowed. RFC-959 allows a pathname to contain any 7-bit ASCII character except CR or LF.

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RFC 1123 - 4.1.4.1 Pathname Specification